Drawing on the experiences of entrepreneurs during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we explore the gendered impacts of policy responses designed primarily to provide relief and support for business continuity while the economy was on hold. The paper examines the themes of their lived...

Using a gender lens, this paper takes stock of economic relief measures that aim to foster the resilience of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to COVID-19. It does so by analyzing results from an online survey of MSMEs and by coming up with a definition of women-owned/led MSMEs...

Using fixed effects estimators to remove unobserved heterogeneity and instrumental variable technique to address the endogeneity of income, this paper analyzes the effect of weather events on welfare in the Philippines. It finds that, one, treating income as an exogenous variable underestimates...